Senior Brand Designer

Our client is a technology company solving payments problems for businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable envied and loved. They provide a suite of products to help businesses accept payments online and offline manage their operations and grow their business. Our client is driven by a commitment to excellence innovation and customer satisfaction.

Role Overview

Our client is looking for a Senior Brand Designer who leads with art direction and executes with craft. Youll shape how our client shows up across brand marketing product storytelling and launch moments and youll set a creative bar that levels up everyone around you.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who is equally strong at two things: finding the visual idea inside a brief and building it themselves. Youll direct across illustration motion photography and video and youll also do the hands-on work especially in brand and motion design. If you want to direct but not make this isnt the role. If you want to make but not think strategically it isnt either.

Youll report to the Design Studio Lead and take full ownership of high-priority projects from early concept through polished execution. The Studio already has strong illustration and motion capabilities so what were adding is a sharp art director who can raise the ceiling on the work and sharpen the output of the whole team.

Job Type: Full Time/Permanent

Location: Nigeria

Workplace: Hybrid

Requirements

Craft & art direction

• 5 years of design and art direction experience ideally at a technology startup agency or product-led company.
• You are hands-on and senior in both brand and motion design. Your portfolio shows work you personally directed and work you personally made and we can tell which is which.
• Your portfolio shows strong conceptual thinking you can move past this looks nice to a clear idea a reason it works and metaphors that connects with the audience.
• You have excellent taste and visual judgment: a sharp eye for good design and can tell when something is almost working and name exactly what needs to change.
• Youre obsessive about the details that make work feel finished: image quality styling spacing texture colour balance consistency and production quality.
• Proficient in Figma Adobe Creative Cloud and Google Slides.

Working across mediums & tone

• You have a sensitivity to brand tone: knowing when work should feel expressive restrained commercial editorial functional or story-led and how to stay distinctive without tipping into decoration for its own sake.
• You know how to make brand work thats useful and beautiful work that clarifies a message supports a story and builds trust.
• Youve built templates guidelines or asset libraries that help a brand scale consistently across teams.

Judgement critique & delivery

• You can turn loose input into a clear creative direction: defining the visual problem setting constraints identifying references and explaining why weaker directions should be dropped.
• You give art-direction critique thats specific and useful
• You can collaborate with other senior creatives: debating direction pressure-testing ideas and pointing out weak spots without getting defensive or precious about your own work.
• Youre imaginative but realistic; you understand timelines resources and production constraints and can share clear execution estimates for your work.
• Youre comfortable presenting creative work to stakeholders and explaining the reasoning behind your decisions.

Bonus points if you

• Have experience on brand or product campaigns for technology companies.
• Have turned product UI into strong marketing or campaign visuals.
• Have built or prototyped with AI tools or have a deep appreciation for design engineering and emerging creative workflows.
• Have experience collaborating with photographers filmmakers illustrators or animators useful but not required; this role doesnt need deep photo or video production experience.
• Love helping other designers learn and grow and are open to learning from them too.

Responsibilities

• Lead creative direction on high-priority work. From storytelling campaigns and product launches to web social events presentations and merch youll find the visual idea inside a brief and carry it through to polished execution.
• Build the brand system for scale. Youll create a library of assets templates and guidelines that let cross-functional partners ship brand-aligned work independently and define how non-design teams do this well using AI tools.
• Design and animate the work hands-on. Day to day youll be making the actual thing: campaign key visuals social and web assets motion pieces launch graphics event and merch design and presentation systems. This is a making role as much as a directing one.
• Turn product and business stories into visual systems. Youll make our client feel clear trustworthy useful and distinctive across every surface people encounter it.
• Direct across disciplines. Youll set the art direction for projects involving illustration motion photography and video working with teammates and external collaborators as needed.
• Ship across the full range of surfaces. A typical month might move from a launch campaign to a set of animated social posts to a pitch deck to event collateral. Youll size the work realistically and deliver it finished.
• Partner with Brand Storytelling. Youll shape the creative approach behind briefs and deliver work that serves both brand and business goals.
• Raise the bar. Youll bring sharp creative judgment to the team by sharpening ideas and improving execution including work that isnt your own.
• Present and defend your thinking. Youll explain the reasoning behind your creative choices clearly enough that stakeholders understand how the work answers the brief.
• Give and receive feedback. Youll join design crits share work early and help the team sharpen its taste collectively.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package and benefits
• 13th month bonus
• TSG Equity compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Wellbeing stipend
• Generous leave policies
• Hybrid working environment
• Smart kind colleagues who are invested in your growth.